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A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
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His 2, answer is, that comeliness grounded on civill humane considerations, is not mere civility, in sacred actions, and use, but sacred by application. W•ich is very true if civill application be meant by mere civill, but then it is nothing to the purpose. For sacred by application is seemly clothing, put on for to go to Church in, and yet is in it self mere civill. The question is not of application, but of internal nature.
His 2, answer is, that comlinesse grounded on civill humane considerations, is not mere civilitie, in sacred actions, and use, but sacred by application. W•ich is very true if civill application be meant by mere civill, but then it is nothing to the purpose. For sacred by application is seemly clothing, put on for to goe to Churche in, and yet is in it self mere civill. The question is not of application, but of internall nature.
Sacred things applied to Civill business, do not therefore become Civill, for who will say, that Prayer, at the beginning of a Parliament, is a Civill act, though it were used in the Upper, and lower house, and applied to that Civill meeting, as it ought to be? And why then shall application of Civill decency unto ⟨p. 74⟩Sacred business, make it alter the nature or name of it?
Sacred thinges applied to Civill buissinesse, doe not therfore become Civill, for who will say, that Prayer, at the beginning of a Parliament, is a Civill act, though it were used in the Vpper, and lower house, and applied to that Civill meeting, as it ought to be? And why then shall application of Civill decencie unto ⟨p. 74⟩Sacred buisinesse, make it alter the nature or name of it?